| Description |
1 online resource (x, 244 pages) |
| Series |
Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics |
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Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
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| Contents |
Pastoral ideology and the pragmatic response -- Tramp culture and the cult of Pan: Robert Frost's Pastoral of class mobility -- "The truth about us": pastoral, pragmatism, and William Carlos Williams's Paterson -- "Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat!": Wallace Stevens's figurations of masculinity -- "The mooring of starting out": John Ashbery's pastoral origins -- Conclusion: late twentieth-century pastoral: Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian, Lisa Robertson and the continuity of a mode |
| Summary |
"In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Ann Marie Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pastoral poetry, American -- History and criticism
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Pragmatism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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Pastoral poetry, American
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Pragmatism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230117150 |
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0230117155 |
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9781349290086 |
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1349290084 |
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